Improvement in window-curtain cornices



l. SOWLE.

Window-Curtain Cornice.

No l5@ 774 Patenwd'remmnava.

THE GRAPHIC C.PHOT0.-L|TH.39&41 PARK PLAGEJLY.

ED STATES PATENT Fria JOHN SOWLE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 159,774, dated February 16,1875; application led April 22, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SOWLE, of Boston, of the county ot' Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ourtain-Oornices; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following' specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotes a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, 3 an edge view, and Fig. 4 'a horizontal section, of a part of a cornice embodying my invention. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the cap. Fig. 6 is a side view of the connection-piece.

My improvementrelates to the application of the cap and connection-piece, as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, the cap is shown at A, and a portion of the connection-piece, by which such cap is connected to another such cap or to a center-piece7 is represented at B. The connection-piece is arranged so as to lap .on the rear side ofthe front part, a, of the cap or corner piece A, and the latter is channeled or grooved horizontally, as shown atb, to receive the upper molding, c, of the connection-piece.

By having the connection-piece so applied to the cap the latter may be moved and adj usted 011 the former to different distances from the center-piece or the fellow cap, as occasion may require, to t the cornice to a window, the connection-piece and the cap,

after such adjustment, being fastened together by one or more screws, or by nails going through one into the other. The groove in the rear side of the cap serves not only to dene the position of the connection-piece vertically relatively to the cap, but affords a support to the connection-piece, independently ot' the screws or nails used to fasten it to the cap. It relieves the screws or nails from the downward strain of the curtains tending to loosen them.

I am aware that cornices have heretofore been made adjustable by means of tonguing land grooving two extension-pieces sliding in the center-piece, but this I do not claim; but I provide a means of adjustment, whereby the main cross-bar remains in one piece, and a solidityis given the cornice that is difficult to obtain in any of the adjustable cornices now made; and, further, I attain this at less eX- pense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The end cap, A, grooved in its rea-r to correspond with and receive the molding of the connecting-piece B, and lapped on said piece, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN SOWLE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

